Comments on: Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair: January 10-15, 2005 https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:12:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12019 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:26 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12019 @Eric: Write that story.  I’d certainly like to read it.

]]> By: Eric Burns (ericburns) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12018 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:25 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12018 @Kay — I can completely understand how disturbing and unnerving your experience must have been.

At the same time, the urge to write a story featuring a 30-something, covered in burns and torn clothes as Shaenon says, doing this on a college campus today, with the subsequent investigation by friends and what they discover, is quite strong. It’s a fantastic hook.

I’m not saying I will — it’s your anecdote, not mine — but it’s tempting.

]]> By: Paul Gadzikowski (pgadzikowski) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12017 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:24 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12017 Oh I dunno, I think I agree with Auld Grump. Before I read your comment, I decided the way Lovelace appears to be looking away from Madblood with the punchline enhances the delivery, in three-quarter instead of in profile as in the previous panel. The same way Charlie Brown frequently does, when the person he’s speaking to has stomped off in the third panel and the punchline is essentially an aside. I don’t think I’d’ve done it that way in this gag on purpose either, but I think it works better.

]]> By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12016 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:23 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12016 @Shaenon: That might have been amazing, but he looked a lot more like Titus.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12015 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:22 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12015 Back in high school, I won a state-wide academic competition.  I had pretty much the same reaction as Madblood.

]]> By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12014 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:21 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12014 Kay: Wait, was he in a ripped-up lab coat and covered in burns? Because that, combined with the invitation to Jimmy Carter’s inauguration, would be pretty amazing.

]]> By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12013 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:20 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12013 At my college, there was this creepy, unbalanced, 30-something stalker guy, whose rich, politically connected family paid the school to keep him a perennial student.  Once he came up to me looking just like Madblood in panel 1, and asked if I wanted to see what he had.  No, I didn’t, but he turned it around and showed me a framed invitation to Jimmy Carter’s inauguration.  I guess he thought he could use it to pick up girls.  So no, I don’t find Madblood particularly sympathetic here.

]]> By: The Auld Grump (theauldgrump) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12012 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:19 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12012 Nar, like Dave Lovelace ignores the fourth wall – the only change might have been saying ‘He’s right.’ instead of ‘You’re right.’

The Auld Grump

]]> By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12011 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:18 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12011 Michael: Thirty bucks, I think.

]]> By: Cesario VIola (cesarioviola) https://narbonic.com/comic/january-10-15-2005/#comment-12010 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:17 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3593#comment-12010 Aww Lovelace.

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